Publications

Publication details [#55401]

Oriyama, Kaya. 2011. The effects of the sociocultural context on heritage language literacy: Japanese–English bilingual children in Sydney. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (6) : 653–681.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language maintenance | literacy | minority child | school

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores how the broader sociocultural context (specifically society, community, and school) influences general and particular aspects of Japanese heritage language literacy amidst school-age children of Japanese descent, residing in Sydney.